Jake Schwitzer
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Executive Director
@northstarpolicy.org
Making Minnesota work for working people.
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Inspired by
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to do some bird photography. Had some fun with this Downy Woodpecker.
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Inspiring message thanks man.
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Last week, I took part in a Minnesota Senate hearing, and the way it ended really bothered me. THREAD
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Philip Bump
4 days ago
How was your year? Probably not as good as the year the 500 richest billionaires had.
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Brandon Beck
4 days ago
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Finchy should go back to the lockeroom and live skeet the rest of the game.
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Sean O’Kane
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Andy Craig
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Hey parents who can’t afford health insurance for your family anymore….ever tried a little patience? Hmmmm?
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Economic Policy Institute
6 days ago
Trump’s DOJ is suing Minneapolis Public Schools over a union contract it falsely labels "discriminatory" against white teachers.
@dskamper.bsky.social
& Valerie Wilson set the record straight—showing how the contract protects all educators while preserving a diverse teaching workforce.
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The Department of Justice is making a mistake by suing Minneapolis Public Schools: The union contract protects all workers while ensuring that Black and brown educators can hold on to good jobs
The U.S. Department of Justice filed suit on Tuesday, December 11, against the Minneapolis school district, alleging that the contract the district signed with the teachers’ union—the Minneapolis Fede...
https://www.epi.org/blog/the-department-of-justice-is-making-a-mistake-by-suing-minneapolis-public-schools-the-union-contract-protects-all-workers-while-ensuring-that-black-and-brown-educators-can-hold-on-to-good-jobs/
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Tim Onion
7 days ago
The Onion, 23 years ago.
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To this administration, the law is only a tool to oppress the working class on behalf of capital.
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7 days ago
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Luke Mielke
8 days ago
After ICE did this in Illinois, the Secretary of State revoked the plates, sent a cease and desist to ICE, threatened to suspend rental car licenses for allowing ICE to swap plates and set up a tip hotline to report plate tampering. MN deserves the same action.
www.ilsos.gov/news/2025/de...
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Luke O'Neil
8 days ago
In the USA even the very wealthy old men must perform as gladiators until death in inhospitable outposts like Indianapolis in order to provide their children with medical care.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
14 days ago
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Peter Wagenius
13 days ago
My daughter’s school bus was delayed this morning because armed ICE agents, some masked, were in the middle of 15th Ave in Cedar Riverside. So why wouldn’t ICE just get out of the way when the bus came? Perhaps they were busy harassing Somali-Americans, who are overwhelmingly citizens. But... (1/4)
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Minnesota Reformer
20 days ago
Commentary from a server who was victim of wage theft writes that national estimates show that 1 in 5 low-wage workers are victims of wage theft. Minneapolis leaders: Do not cut wage theft enforcement budget
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Minneapolis leaders: Do not cut wage theft enforcement budget • Minnesota Reformer
Workers in Minneapolis lose millions of dollars in hard-earned wages due to employer noncompliance with the city’s labor standards. National estimates show that one in five low-wage workers are victim...
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/12/03/minneapolis-leaders-do-not-cut-wage-theft-enforcement-budget/
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Emmet Otter's Jug Band Saturnalia
20 days ago
Jeff Epstein’s best friend thinks I live in a hellhole and that my neighbors are garbage, which I just assume is part of him grieving over the loss of his best friend, Jeff Epstein.
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21 days ago
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If I were a Congressperson from rural MN, like say Stauber or Fischbach or Emmer or Finstad, I'd be pretty freaked out about my constituents losing almost TWENTY THOUSAND dollars specifically because of my actions.
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21 days ago
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North Star Policy Action
21 days ago
The Trump administration is failing to agree on whether to extend key ACA subsidies, subsidies that 22 million Americans rely on, including tens of thousands of Minnesotans. Without action, health insurance premiums will spike as early as next week. Here’s how it this would impact Minnesota:
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It was pretty nutty reading the Chamber’s take on our economy and not seeing the word ‘tariff’ even ONCE.
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about 1 month ago
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Really loving the corporate humility in this quote. WE’RE HERE AND WE DON’T CARE IF YOU WANT US.
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about 1 month ago
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Anna Clark
about 1 month ago
A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew. “It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet." For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested. Stunning report.
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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges
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Tina Smith
about 1 month ago
Leave our breweries alone.
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Robert Reich
about 1 month ago
Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
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Coach Finstock
about 1 month ago
What sick dogshit place are we living in where "child sex trafficking and pedophilia" is an "issue" and not a "put everyone in jail and throw away the whole jail" situation
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Starbucks Workers United
about 1 month ago
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say
#NoContractNoCoffee
with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Patrick Monahan
about 2 months ago
Viewing this as a mandate in favor of my “Stop making me hear about Ezra Klein” platform
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David Dayen
about 2 months ago
At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.
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Max Kennerly
2 months ago
All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.
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Tina Smith
2 months ago
No, it’s just that we hate pedophiles
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Tina Smith
2 months ago
If a "clean CR" spikes my constituents’ health insurance premiums, it’s not clean. It’s dirty and puts the interests of the richest Americans ahead of Minnesota and I won’t vote for it. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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Aaron Rosenthal
2 months ago
Great story from
@mprnews.org
on our recent report release and efforts to end wage theft for non-unionized construction workers in Minneapolis. It's time to move from whack-a-mole reactive enforcement to across-the-board proactive compliance.
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North Star Policy Action
2 months ago
Yesterday we stood with labor allies and released our new report, A Roadmap to Compliance: Strengthening Worker Protections in Minneapolis Construction. We called on the city to take bold steps to eliminate wage theft, retaliation, sexual assault, and labor trafficking.
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MPR News
2 months ago
Labor groups are calling for Minneapolis to more proactively enforce the city’s regulations against worker wage theft and on-site harassment. “The message is clear: For workers, the risks of reporting are greater than the rewards, while bad actors see the opposite,” said researcher Aaron Rosenthal.
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Advocates want the City of Minneapolis to do more to end wage theft, worker harassment
A report released by a progressive think tank recommends that the city use its permitting authority and independent audits to ensure that existing labor regulations are properly enforced.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/10/15/advocates-want-city-of-minneapolis-to-do-more-to-end-wage-theft-worker-harassment
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Lars Negstad
3 months ago
c'mon mn say hell no to Waymo
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Governor Tim Walz
3 months ago
Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill just raised health insurance rates by an average of $2,000 a year for middle class Minnesotans. He’s prioritizing the pocketbooks of the wealthy - leaving rural communities, middle class families, and small businesses out in the dust.
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Nicholas Grossman
3 months ago
Why would any legislator vote for a budget the executive will ignore? In that situation, a yes vote conveys one thing and nothing else: validation for the White House’s blatantly unconstitutional actions.
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Bobby Kogan
3 months ago
Key part of funding negotiations that's underdiscussed: Ds want to add provisions to ensure any agreement they come to is *actually followed* (unlike what's happening now) But Trump says that's a red line he won't accept - that he wants the ability to come to an agreement & immediately break it
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Trump doesn’t care about you if you’re not a billionaire saying nice things about him on the teevee.
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Greg Sargent
3 months ago
Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll: Overall approval: 38-54 Approval on economy: 39-56 Approval on trade: 39-54 On National Guard into cities: 42-55 On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55 Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:
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North Star Policy Action
3 months ago
We love to brag when Minnesota is the best. This isn’t a list we want to be high on. Minnesota has the fourth largest teacher pay penalty in the country. Our teachers make 33% less than other workers with a college degree. Nationwide, the gap is the largest it’s ever been and growing.
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Jared Yates Sexton
3 months ago
Anything we do has to include breaking up corporate and media monopolies. The tools are there to dismantle this horseshit, you just have to find the people willing to use them.
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slate
3 months ago
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Andrew Lawrence
3 months ago
if youre a ceo and didn’t see this coming then you should be fired for being a dumb stupid gullible moron and also gross negligence
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Racket
3 months ago
Come on, man.
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Gimme a Freakin' Break! Alleged Union Buster Ann Kim Was Never 'Canceled.' - Racket
Plus U of M labor drama, Euro Target cometh, and one sweet little cabin in today's Flyover news roundup.
https://racketmn.com/gimme-a-freakin-break-alleged-union-buster-ann-kim-was-never-canceled
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Aaron Sojourner
3 months ago
A typical hour of work afforded American employees less purchasing power in August than in July. Both accelerating consumer price inflation & decelerating wage growth contributed to the decline in real hourly wages & real weekly earnings.
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Aaron Sojourner
3 months ago
That's bad, fam.
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“You can wholeheartedly support workers’ rights and still see the challenges of implementing a traditional union in this business.” Nah. Either labor’s collective voice matters everywhere or it matters nowhere. Solidarity.
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